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Diet coke Christmas cake recipe
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Festive flavours of sour cherries, cranberries, mixed spice and cinnamon, plus the honey, result in an exciting update to a classic Christmas cake. The addition of diet coke to the cake makes it extra moist. See method
Ingredients
- 300ml diet Coke
- 225g dried pitted dates, roughly chopped
- 5ml (1tsp) bicarbonate of soda
- 50g dried sour cherries
- 50g dried cranberries
- 60ml (4tbsp) honey
- 250g self-raising flour
- 10ml (2tsp) ground mixed spice
- 5ml (1tsp) ground cinnamon
- 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
- 75g pecans or walnuts, chopped
No self-raising flour? Add 2 tsp baking powder for every 150g plain flour
Each serving contains
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Energy
1115kj
263kcal
13%
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Fat
7g
10%
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Saturates
1g
5%
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Sugars
27g
30%
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Salt
0.5g
8%
of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 47.9g
Protein 5.1g
Fibre 4.1g
Method
- Grease and base line a 900g loaf tin and preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4.
- Heat the Diet Coke in a medium pan until boiling. Remove from heat and stir in dates, bicarbonate of soda, then stir in the cherries, cranberries and honey. Mix well and allow to cool.
- Sift the flour with the spices, then add to the cooled date mixture. Stir in the eggs and nuts. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 1-1¼ hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean, covering with foil if the cake becomes too brown.
- Leave to cool in the tin. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.